Iron, 375 grams, 406 mm. Circa 9th-11th century AD. A slender iron spearhead of leaf-shaped profile and lozengiform section. The blade is about 34 cm in length and 4 cm at the widest point. The socket is of the standard Scandinavian closed-socket construction and only 3.3 cm external diameter at the mouth. The piled construction is visible on some parts of the blade's surface and it is similar in overall profile to the typical Petersen's Type G, but a little rounder at the base of the blade. Reference: cf. the spearhead from Sääksmäki in Leppäaho, H. Späteisenzeitliche Waffen aus Finnland, Helsinki, 1964 plate 44(a) and Hammond, B. British Artefacts vol.2 Middle-Saxon and Viking, Witham (in press). Very fine condition, stabilized and conserved, minor loss to blade sustained in antiquity. Provenance: found Cambridgeshire, England.